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UNIVERSITY OF COPENH AGEN
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Food, health and philosophy in East and West
Crossroads between science, culture and business
26 March - 4 April 2020
Organised in China (Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou)
Organisers
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
University of Hong Kong, China
Sponsors
ARLA Foods
Carlsberg Foundation
University of Copenhagen, DenmarkSHORT FACTS:
• Dates: 26 March - 4 April 2020;
• Sites: Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, China;
• Credits: 6 ECTS (incl. presentation/report);
• The course uses insights about food and health in East and West to illustrate how natural
science, social science and human science all contribute to the creation of new knowledge;
• The course mixes academic lectures with site visits to universities, food markets, food/health
companies, hospitals and cultural/religious sites to augment the learning process;
• The course is open to PhD students and R&D professionals from companies that work on
topics related to the food chain and/or health of humans or animals;
• Scholarships are available (see page 3 for more information); organised under Graduate School
of Health and Medical Sciences and ThinkChina office, both placed at University of Copenhagen.
Introduction
Food and health traditions have become globalized. On the other hand, diet and health views
still differ widely around the world and are determined by many factors (e.g. culture, food
availability, health care, technology, science). How we view nature, food and the human body
is also important. So what determines what people eat and try to stay healthy - science,
culture, economics or philosophy? Is food just fuel for the body machine or is food also
medicine and “functional food”? How does food and health relate to business, culture,
philosophy, ethics and religion? The answers vary in different parts of the world. New insights
lead to better communication and enhanced collaboration across cultural/scientific borders.
This broadening PhD course aims to give the participants a better understanding of the
scientific, cultural and philosophical background for specific diet habits and health views. We
couple fieldwork (to universities, hospitals, food markets, religious sites) with insights into the
basics of natural, social and human sciences (the 3 main academic domains). Specifically, we
compare some traditions of the Western world with those in China. This makes us aware of
the potentials and limitations of modern science, and its role in diet and health globalization.
In open-minded cross-talks across different academic disciplines, we stimulate food-health
researchers to collaborate, and a look at their own research topic from greater
methodological perspectives.
Dates, participants, venue, credits and exam
• Time: 26 March - 4 April 2020.
• Participants: The course is international and welcomes a mixed group of PhD students/
researchers/company personnel (max. 25) related to different scientific disciplines. All
should have a relation to the food/health area (e.g. nutrition, food science, human or
veterinary medicine, pharma, sociology, business, anthropology, philosophy, religion).
• Course sites: Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shenzhen; course language: English
• Exam: Participants produce a PowerPoint presentation with notes (see later) that is
delivered after the course and examined by the course coordinators.
• Course material: Texts and powerpoint presentations supplied by lecturers. Updated
programme and final list of lecturers are announced 1 month before course start.
• Credit: 6 ECTS incl. oral presentation of preliminary report on last course day (pass/fail).
2Course fee, travel and accommodation costs
• Course fee: There is no specific course fee for PhD students whose institution is a member
of the European open market for PhD courses (i.e. that Danish universities except CBS).
The course fee (excl. travel costs) for all other PhD students is DKK 6000 DKK
The course fee is DKK 9.000 for professionals working in R&D organisations or similar.
The course fee covers lectures, local transport, accommodation and meals during course.
• Travel to/from course: All participants cover their own costs for visas, flights, and local
transport, accommodation and food expenses not part of the course period (estimated
DKK 8.000 for non-China participants, less for participants from China).
• Each participant must pay DKK 6000 (course fee, excl. transport costs to/from course) to
the course secretariat before start of the course. Following separate application, the
course secretariat may cover the course fee and/or travel costs for some participants (only
if infrastructure or available funds make full-cost participation impossible).
Apply to participate
Application deadline: 15 December 2019. Please APPLY VIA THE THINKCHINA WEBSITE [Follow
Link]. If you encounter problems with the application link then please contact course
secretariat Casper Wichmann, mail cw@thinkchina.dk
Course programme (Tentative)
Day Topic/Activity
Arrival: Tao Fong Shan (TFS), Hong Kong (HK) Tao Fong Shan Road 33 (http://www.tfssu.org).
Transport: Organise your own travel. From HK airport take bus A41 to Shatin Metro Station
(22 HKD, buy Octapus travel card). Take taxi (10 min) to Tao Fong Shan. Get your room key at
Pilgrims Hall. Arrive at TFS latest 4pm on 26 Mar (let us know if you arrive before for meals).
Book your own room and meals at TFS or elsewhere in HK, if you arrive before 26 March.
Theme: Welcome (TFS)
Thu 16:30: Welcome! 1-slide participant introductions (2 min, present outline of your PhD project)
26.03 18.00: Evening meal at TFS
19-20: Introduction to course contents and to the history and tradition of TFS (PS, OSM)
Theme: Working across different sciences in food and health
08.00: Breakfast
09.00: Food, health and philosophy East and West – aims of the PhD course (PS)
10:00: Introduction to TFS history and traditions for dialogue across fields (OSM, PS)
Fri 11.00: Natural, social and human science in food and health, life and death (PS, BN, CW)
27.03 12.30: Lunch
13.30: Walk to Tai Wai wet food market/TCM shop – other views of food & health? (PS, CW)
15.00: Metro from Tai Wai to Hung Hom (make sure to have Octapus travel card)
15.45: HK Polytechnic University: Natural, social & human science interactions at HKPU? (HL)
18:00: Joint meal followed by free evening in Kowloon Peninsula.
Theme: Working across East and West, and across philosophies, in food and health
08.00: Breakfast
Sat 09.00: Nature views in East and West – how to do cross-disciplinary science? (PS)
28.03 10.00: Making sense of the world, nature and man: Two modes of thought (BN)
11.15: Food, eating and food for health in China and the West, fast and slow food? (PS)
12.30: Lunch
313.30: TFS cemetery – nature and food in life and death in Christianity (PS)
14.00: 10.000 Buddha Temple – food, nature and health in Chinese Buddhism? (PS, BN)
14.30: Shatin cemetery – nature and food after death in East and West? (PS, BN)
15:00: Shatin metro to Wong Tai Sin Temple. Food and health in Taoism? (BN, PS)
17.15: Local eating around Wong Tai Sin (CW).
20-22: Relaxed evening gathering for all at TFS. Bring snacks and a joke from your country!
Theme: Philosophy of nature, food and body in East and West
06.00: Walk to Needle Hill (2½h, optional) - nature as natural, social and human science? (BN)
08.30: Breakfast
10.00: Somatic integrity: Alchemy and quest for immortality in Chinese history (BN)
11.00: Humans and nature: Philosophies of biology and ecology in East and West (CL)
Sun
12.30: Lunch
29.03
14.30: Introduction to Chinese/Eastern thinking: Philosophy and science (BN)
15:30: Food, health, nature and culture in Christian philosophy - show TFS church (OSM)
16.30: Group reflections on course report topics. Discuss your individual/group topics.
18:30: Evening meal at Tao Fong Shan
19:30: Brief presentation of course presentation titles by students (2 min each)
Theme: Food and health in Western and Chinese medicine at Univ. Hong Kong (HKU)
08.00: Breakfast
08.45: Departure by bus for HKU (CW)
10:00: Demonstrations/tour at Traditional Chinese Medicine Dept. (CW, TCM School staff)
11:00: Lecture(s) – how to use both Western and Chinese learning in TCM health science?
Mon 12:00: Departure with public bus for HKU School of Biology/Nutrition
30.03 12:30: Lunch at/around HKU.
13.30: Qigong exercise at HKU – is this mental and/or physical exercise?(JW)
14.15: Western and Eastern/Chinese food, health and nutrition science – is it different? (JW)
15.15: Sugar to induce obesity and diabetes in East and West – even across generations (JL)
16.00: Walk to The Peak (1 h, walking shoes) – dinner 18.00 h at “Hong Kong Day” (CW)
19.30: Return with bus (from bus station at Peak) to TFS (or stay in HK + own transport to TFS)
Theme: Modern genetics and technology to improve food and health?
07.15: Breakfast (- deliver luggage to TFSSU bus at 08.00 h). 08.10: Walk down to metro.
08.30: Departure by metro from Shatin to Luohu boarder (to walk through customs check)
10:15: Departure with bus outside Luohu customs (FG, CW)
11.15: Tour of China National Genome Bank/Beijing Genomics Institute (FG)
Tue
12.30: Departure with bus to for lunch at Dapeng Ancient Fortress (CW, FG)
31.03
15:00: Departure with bus to Pingshan NEOMICS Center for Newborn Health (FG, PS)
16.00: The genome, human health and Yin-yang theory – what does it tell us? (FG)
17.00: Omics technologies for newborn infants/animals - potentials and limitations (PS)
18.30: Light evening meal before departure with bus for Guangzhou
21.30: Arrival and check-in at hotel in Guangzhou (CW)
Theme: Food, health and disease in modern China
08.00: Breakfast + course reflections and day-briefing (ZhuHai Hotel breakfast room)
09.30: Take metro from Ximenkou station to Sun Yat-sen University (meet in hotel lobby)
10.15: Food, lifestyle and health for children in South China (YZ)
Wed
11.00: Food for patients at modern China hospitals (NN, YZ)
01.04
11.45: Omics and Big Data to investigate food and health – new progress? (PPJ)
12.30: Light lunch at Sun Yat-sen University
14.00: Tour and discussions at modern China cancer hospital: Food in cancer? (YZ)
16:30: Free evening in Guangzhou (option: Pearl River Cruise, remember your passport)
Theme: Traditional/modern health philosophies? (TCM hospital + Mead Johnson Nutrition)
Thu
08.00: Breakfast + course reflections and day-briefing (ZhuHai Hotel)
02.04
09.30: Walk to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) hospital in Guangzhou (CW)
10:00: Lectures and tour at TCM Hospital – TCM different from modern health care? (YZ)
412.30: Lunch on the street nearby TCM Hospital (CW)
13:30: Bus to Mead Johnson Nutrition company (CW, 2 Xiayuan Rd, Huangpu district)
15-18: Tour, lecture, discussions about milk, health and children in modern China? (CL, MJN)
18.00: Return to ZhuHai Hotel - joint (Sichuan?) dinner (CW, BN)
Theme: Course presentation work day (16th floor, Zhuhai Hotel + Qing Ping Market)
08.00: Breakfast + course report and day-briefing (ZhuHai Hotel breakfast room)
09.30: Depart with metro from Ximenkou
Fri 10:00: Shamian Island, Qing Ping Market – functional foods in East and West, before and now
03.04 12:00: Tibetan lunch at Shamian Island (CW, BN)
13:00: Return to Zhuhai hotel for report work (individual or groups) for Saturday presentation
18.30: Course dinner and evaluation at Zhuhai Hotel, Japanese style (CW, BN, PS).
20.30: Final work on next day course presentation
Theme: Course report presentations (16th floor, Zhuhai Hotel + local Buddhist Temple)
08.00: Breakfast, the check out from hotel (pay yourself, if you stay longer)
Sat
09:00: Wrap-up reflections: Food, health, science, culture and philosophy (PS, BN)
04.04
10:00: Student report presentations (7 min/student + 3 min discussions).
12.30: Lunch break (Chinese fast food brought from the street)
Ching
13.00: Student report presentations - continued
Ming
14.50: Walk to the ancient Guangxiao Buddhist Temple (YZ, PS)
Day
15-17: Temple visit and discussions: Food and health in Buddhism? (CW, YZ)
17:00: Farewell from course. Organize your own travel from GZ (1 h) or HK (4 h) airports
Mon Deadline for delivery of final course report presentation via e-mail to course coordinators
22.04 (Format: pdf file of previous pwt presentation with 1 slide/page + text explanations as Notes)
Course leaders and organisation
• Course leader: Per Sangild (PS), Professor, Comp. Paediatrics and Nutrition, Fac. Health and
Medical Sciences, Univ. Copenhagen. Tel. +45 2616 0530, mail pts@sund.ku.dk
• Course co-leader: Bent Nielsen (BN), Ass. Professor, Dept. Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Fac.
Humanities, Univ. Copenhagen. Tel. +45 29903887, mail: bentn@hum.ku.dk
• University of Hong Kong: Jennifer Wan (JW), Ass. Professor, PhD, Dept Bioplogical Sciences,
Pokfulam Road, University of Hong Kong, mail jmfwan@hkusua.hku.hk
• Sun Yat-sen University: Yanna Zhu (YZ), Ass. Professor, Dept. Maternal and Child Health, School of
Public Health, Sun Yat-sen Univ., Guangzhou. zhuyn3@mail.sysu.edu.cn
• Other lecturers: Clement Lo, TFS (CL), Ole S. Madsen, TFS (OSM), Tim Chan (TC), unknowns (NN)
Secretariat
• Casper Wichmann (CW), Coordinator, ThinkChina.dk, Univ. Copenhagen, Karen Blixens Vej 4, 2300
Copenhagen. Tel. +45 5130 2527, mail cw@thinkchina.dk. The course is organised at Graduate
School of Health and Medical Sciences, Univ. Copenhagen that issues the course certificates.
Course report and exam:
• Powerpoint presentation on own topic, incl. pictures/photos/explanatory text (12-15 pwt pages)
• Outline presentation presented at end of course, final presentation delivered soon after course.
• Report topics defined at course start and (maybe) related to own research. Joint reports possible.
• The topic must relate to one or more specific themes/lectures/excursion elements from course.
• Consider East-West contrasts and intersections among natural, social, human science in your topic
• Preliminary exam reports presented for other participants by the end of the course (7+3 min).
• It is obligatory to participate in all course activities, and you must submit the final course report.
• We require all students to have good English skills for communication (TOEFL 3 level or above).
5Course background literature
• Andrews, Birdie: Chinese Medicine
• Flybjerg, Bent: Making Social Science Matter. Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed
Again. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001).
• Heisenberg, Werner: Discussions associated with the Solvey Conference in Physics, 1927.
• Lin, Yutang: The Importance of Living, 1937.
• Ng, Tai P. & Wah-Won Ng: How cross-cultural views of history, philosophy and human
relationships will change modern global society 2007
• Puett, Michael, and Christine Gross-Loh: The Path. (Simon & Schuster 2016)
• Sangild, Per T.: Philosophy of functional food in East and West. Functional Food Center, 2015.
• Slingerland, Edward. Trying Not to Try: The Ancient Chinese Art and Modern Science of
Spontaneity. (Broadway Books 2015)
Course venues and additional information:
• Remember visa(s) in time (!). You may need double-entry visa to Hong Kong, if you return this way.
• Course expenses are kept at a minimum and course participants must accept a very basic standard
for accommodation, transport and food. Single rooms is possible by additional costs on your own.
• In Hong Kong (pop. 7 mio.), we are based at Tao Fong Shan, a basic retreat hostel constructed in
Buddhist temple style by Danish/Norwegian Christian missionaries in 1930ies. Tao Fong Shan
works to explore the differences between Eastern and Western philosophy, religion and culture.
• Universities in Hong Kong and Sun Yat-sen University are top universities in the region and world.
Shenzhen (pop. 12 mio.) is a hub for computers, modern technology and health care (e.g. omics).
We visit the world´s largest genome sequencing facility and a research center for newborn infants.
In Guangzhou (pop. 14 mio.) we stay at Zhuhai Hotel, a simple, Chinese style hotel in the old
town.We visit and have lectures at universities, hospitals, temples, food companies and food
markets.
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